Healthcare ideas, policies, cases and best practices highlighting some of the most important topics facing healthcare leaders today. 

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Medication Error and Patient Safety

David U
A number of barriers to the enhancement of patient safety through a reduction of medication errors have been identified. These include a blame culture; lack of leadership; lack of peer-review protection; and the absence of a collaborative voluntary national reporting system. The latter would provide oversight and help healthcare providers avoid recurrence of these adverse drug events stemming from human error.

This article and more made available by Baxter Corporation

Adoption of Information Technology in Primary Care Physician Offices in Alberta and Denmark, Part 1: Historical, Technical and Cultural Forces

Denis Protti, Steven Edworthy and Ib Johansen
This article evaluates the current state, driving forces and general health system factors that have impacted two culturally and historically different medical jurisdictions - Denmark, a member of the European Union, and Alberta, Canada.

This article and more made available by HP Canada

Making the Best Use of Radiological Resources in Canada

Lawrence A. Stein
Diagnostic imaging plays a crucial frontline role in healthcare, providing the information some physicians need to make a diagnosis and determine a course of treatment for their patients. However, wait times for access to diagnostic imaging examinations continue to be long. This is due to a number of factors, including the expanding indications for CT and MRI and growing reliance on imaging studies, Canada's lag in purchasing new equipment, an American influence on the Canadian healthcare system and clinicians' requests for inappropriate examinations

This article and more made available by Philips Healthcare

Complementary and Alternative Medicine: A Pharmacist's Perspective on Patient Needs

Dipen Kalaria
Recommendations on research, regulation and funding based on accepting evidence beyond that found through randomized clinical trials.

This article and  more made available by Pharmacy.ca...

The Times They Are A-Changing: What Worked and What We Learned in Deploying Ontario's Wait Time Information System

Hugh MacLeod, Alan Hudson, Sarah Kramer and Murray Martin
Developed and deployed in just two years, Ontario's new Wait Time Information System has made the province a leader in providing open access to wait times and made significant contributions towards the transformation of healthcare in Ontario.

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Safety Is Not Negotiable: The Importance of Occupational Health and Safety to Pandemic Planning

Linda Silas, Nancy Johnson, Kate Rexe
The 2003 outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, generated a great deal of attention around the ability of Canada's health system to respond to a health crisis. This event underscored a very serious reality - on the whole, Canada's health system was not prepared to quickly and efficiently deal with a health emergency.

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World’s First Discoveries and Other Major Medical Breakthroughs in ACAHO Member Institutions.

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